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Strength across Cummins’ power systems business helped offset soft demand and uncertainty across a number of the company’s other end markets, which dampened sales and profit in 3Q.

The comparison was helped by a weak base last year, when travel to Paris was dampened by the 2024 Olympics.

More likely, Pelosi, 85, is hoping Democratic electoral success will dampen the progressive fervor to run party elders out of office.

That the process may take a couple of years to materialize might dampen trading sentiment.

However, the next event will likely be milder, because today's atmosphere contains more oxygen than in the distant past, which dampens the nutrient feedback.